Use a Task List to Enhance Your Time Management Skills

To achieve your goals and become everything you are capable of becoming you must get your time under control. Psychologists generally agree that a “sense of control” is the key to feelings of happiness, confidence, power, and personal well-being. And a sense of control is only possible when you practice excellent time management skills.

Choices and Decisions

If the front side of the coin of success is the ability to set clear goals for yourself, then the flip side of the same coin is the ability to get yourself organized and work on your most valuable tasks, every minute of every day in order to achieve your goals. Your choices and decisions have combined to create your entire life to this moment. To change or improve your life in any way, you have to make new choices and new decisions that are more in alignment with who you really are and what you really want.

The Right Thing to Do

The only way that you can determine that is right or wrong, more or less important, high or low priority is by first determining your aim or goal at that particular moment. From that point forward, you can divide all your activities in to “A” activities or “B” activities. An “A” activity is something that moves you toward your goal, the faster and more directly the better. A “B” activity is an activity that does not move you toward a goal that is important to you.

Begin with a Task List

The basic tool of time management is a task, organized by priority, and used as a constant tool for personal management. The fact is that you can’t manage time; you can only manage yourself. That is why time management requires self-discipline, self-control, and self-mastery. Time management requires that you make the best choices and decisions necessary to enhance the quality of your life and work. Then you follow through on your decisions. Knowing time management skills that work for you will quickly improve your life and positively affect your workload.

Use Advance Planning to Achieve Your Goals

Begin today to plan every week in advance, preferably the Sunday before the workweek begins. Plan every day in advance, preferably the night before. When you make a task list of everything you have to do the following day, your subconscious mind works on that list all night long. When you wake up in the morning, you will often have ideas and insights to help you accomplish the items on your task list.

Improve Your Life Through Prioritization

In the process of managing your time, you must separate the urgent tasks from the important ones. Urgent tasks are determined by external pressures and requirements. You must do them immediately.

How to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Make a list of everything you would like to be, do, or have in the months and years ahead. Analyze your task list and select those items that can have the greatest possible consequences in your life.

Thank you for reading this article about improving your time management skills through creating a task list. You can achieve your goals and improve your life through prioritization and developing a sense of control. Please share and comment below!

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About Brian Tracy — Brian is recognized as the top sales training and personal success authority in the world today. He has authored more than 60 books and has produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs on sales, management, business success and personal development, including worldwide bestseller The Psychology of Achievement. Brian's goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined. You can follow him on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Linkedin and Youtube.

Shenoi

At the start of each day, I will create a task list to prioritize the top three most important things I need to do. If I would have huge task list to complete in a day. I would consider dividing my day into two-hour blocks for each particular task. Then move onto the next project.

http://Facbook Саенко Надежда

Cпасибо Брайан за мудрости, буду пользоваться ими

Mark

Another great piece of Brian’s wisdom!!!!!

http://www.prosalesguy.ca Dave Warawa – PROSALESGUY

So many great tips here. The best? Plan your activities for tomorrow as the last thing you do today. Make an appointment in your calendar. Don’t leave it to be the first thing tomorrow. Watch your productivity increase dramatically.

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